Ouroboros Spine two moons

kukutux let the man lean upon her as they moved from her den into the light. it would hurt, she knew, and gave him moments for this, until they had come to the well-tended clearing just outside. and then beyond, she urged him, along the shallow curves of a small path leading downward to another, wider trail. 

the scent of the needle-trees punctuated the air. she would take him to the tangles of berries some minutes away, settling the healing man beneath a birch as she looked to the skies. "soon there will be storms of lightning."